The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-11-23
Address of Welcome" Pomona
Grange.



Brothers and sisters of Pomona Grange.
Once more we are brought together by
love which we have for our nobie order,
and the interest and feeling which we
have for, and in edeh other a. members of
hat order.
As members of the great Lyman family,
warmed by the same sun. subject To the
same Ills, controlled by the same national
love and bound together by ties that only
death can sunder, our interest in and for
each other should, not like the dews of
morning or the passing cloud, quickly
flee away leaving nothing as token of
its former existence; but 1t should flow
on through life like grand and beautiful
stream growing deeper and broader until
lost in the ocean of deaN.
How sweet and helpful were the ties
and friendships of our school day life
aud how the memory OF those days and
the friendships that then existed run like
a golden thread down into the web of our
later years, brightning and hallowing
each and every year as they pass in swift
and still swifter succession How we'll
can we remember the knowledge we
gained of each others character, the
ins ght into each others nature, the quiet,
social chats, the condolences that grew
up between ourselves and our mates. dur
ing the intermissiou of our school days.
They came to us like golden CLEANS Of
sunshine in a cloudy day and brighten
our school day lives, aud made easier the
talks that were daily to be met aud con-
quercd.
The meeting of our Grange is but the
| recess of the school of our mature years,
for our daily life and daily toll i but the
school of life, which every mortal must
attend until dismissed at last by the great
master.
This meeting of Pomona is but the
gathering of our scholars not for school,
but for intermission after days and weeks
of toll and labor in our different schools,
we all come together here for recess
and, as in our youthful days, our intimate
| knowledge of each other, our friendship
| our hope and fears, our trials and delights
were more fully made known to each
other, so at these meetings of Pomona
| we come to know each other more fully,
we gain better understanding of each
| others aims and desires we learn to ap-
preciate, and have kinder and more gen
crous feeling toward each other, and
when we have again returned home to
our school with its various duties, and
the cares and perplexites that wrap
themselves darkly about us, the recollec-
tions of the kindly greetings which we
| shall here given each other, the helpful
words of love and regard that shall rel
up from our hearts and find utterance,
will help to tighten those duties and give
a silver lining to the cloud of cares, and
perplexeties that encompass us about.
And who shall say that in the life up
on which we enter when we pass through
the door that death opens, the rccollec-
tons of these meetings of Pomona with
their fruit in the shop of nobler i'm
pulses grander aspiration, kindler feel
| ngs toward our fellow beings and all
| that 90 to perfect n noble character,
may not be one more golden thread that
| shall be run into the web of our new eX-
istence, hoping to brighten and fill it to
perfect completion.
Brothers AMI Sisters one and all let us
more fully realize that the duties and
obligations, which we assume when we
pass from the condition of Laborers to
that of IIusbandman, and from maid to
matron, are such as should bind us more
closely to gether, uniting our interests,
making us more and more char atable
toward each other more forgiving and
less condemning in spirit, and develop
| ing in US higher and nobler manhood
and womanhood as our years go rolling
on
And now Brothers and Sisters of
Pomona, in behalf of each and every
member of Athens Grange we bid Voa
welcome not only to our love and sym
mpathy our hearts and hands, but to our
pots of beans and loaves of brown bread.
DELLA l.. BARTLETT.